Margaret Carroll  

Margaret Carroll’s second romantic comedy, THE TRUE MATCH, is now available from Avalon Books. It is set in NYC (Margaret’s hometown) and follows the adventures of a young woman trying to get her love life and career back on track after being jilted at the altar. The book is written in the same lighthearted chick-lit style as Margaret’s first novel, THE WRITE MATCH (Avalon).

Margaret has signed with HarperCollins for worldwide English rights to two thrillers. The first, A DARK LOVE, will be published in June 2009 as an international Avon paperback, and tells the story of a young wife who tries to escape an abusive marriage by starting life over in a small Colorado mountain town.

The next book, which she is currently writing, is set in the Hamptons, where a millionaire businessman drowns in his swimming pool after a long night of hard partying. The book is not titled yet, but is planned as a worldwide hardcover release under the Harper imprint in Autumn 2009.

Margaret writes fiction part-time in addition to being a full-time mom and homemaker. Her work builds on 20 years’ global public relations and journalism experience. She has served on award-winning marketing teams, as President of an industry organization dedicated to raising professional standards for public relations professionals, and has traveled the globe.

From 1998 until summer of 2000, she was Director of Advertising & Public Relations for The Luxury Collection and St. Regis hotels, a group of 57 four- and five-star hotels owned/operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts of White Plains, NY. Starwood also owns the Sheraton, Westin, W and Four Points brands. (More)

Immediately prior, Margaret was on the North America Public Relations management team for 10 years for British Airways, based in New York City, with several secondments to the worldwide headquarters in London and frequent overseas travel around the world. She earned a Silver PRSA Award in 1998 for her work to publicize the raising of a half-scale model of the Concorde in Times Square. She was voted President of the North American Airline Public Relations Association in 1996, one of very few women to hold that post.

Prior to joining British Airways in 1988, Margaret was a business trade journalist, working at Corporate Meetings & Incentives, Editor of E.F. Hutton’s daily Investors Newsletter, Aviation Editor of Travel Agent Magazine, and Assistant-to-Editor at Standard & Poor’s Daily Record..

Margaret earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at The George Washington University, has completed numerous writing seminars and workshops, and these days hosts booksignings and seminars about her writing.

She resides with her family in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, where she volunteers on the marketing committee for St. Paul on the Lake Catholic School. The Carroll’s reside with Buddy, a Scottish Terrier.

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